Content Objective: Students will discover the problems of industrialization and the changes that happened due to those difficulties.

Language Objective: Students will participate in the Geography Bee.

Problems from Industrialization

Child LaborYoung children worked for long hours and low pay in dangerous environments. These children received no education.

Child LaborLewis Hine was a photojournalist and muckraker. He took photos of child laborers, which brought a lot of attention to their cause.

Child labor reforms

Fair Labor Standards Act: set a minimum age for child labor

Working Conditions Labor unions were

weak. Workers worked for long hours, for low pay, in dangerous environments.

Working conditions

Samuel Gompers was the founder and president of the AFL. The AFL strengthened Labor Unions.

Working conditions reforms

Fair Labor Standards Act: established the minimum wage and the 40 hours work week.

GovernmentCorruption was a huge problem. Government officials handed out government jobs and contracts in exchange for votes. Voters had little say, or control in their government.

Government Various elected

officials brought about reforms that increased democracy: gave voters more control over their government

Government reforms

- Direct primary- Secret ballot

Poverty & Immigration It was difficult for

immigrants to find jobs. Unemployment was high and jobs paid poorly. There were many poor people living in overcrowded slums and tenements.

Poverty & immigration

Jane Addams was a middle class woman and founder of Hull House, the first settlement house. Settlement houses offered social services to immigrants and the poor (education, daycare, job training).

Poverty & immigrationJacob Riis was a muckraker. He wrote a book called How the Other Half Lives which brought attention to the misery of life in the slums.

Poverty & immigration reforms

Settlement houses were the beginning of social services for the poor.

Health ConcernsThere were no laws regulating safe food and drugs. The meatpacking industry was disgusting (rotten meat and other unsanitary conditions). Medicines made false claims and contained unsafe ingredients.

Health concerns

Upton Sinclair was a writer. He wrote a novel called The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry.

Health concerns reformsMeat Inspection

ActPure Food and

Drug Act

Content Objective: Students will learn about the Temperance Movement. They will analyze Primary Source Documents.

Language Objective: Students will participate in the History Bee.

Objectives

AlcoholMany people believed that alcohol contributed to unemployment, poverty, violence, domestic abuse, and even insanity.

alcohol

The temperance movement wanted to prevent alcohol from ruining people’s lives. Prohibitionists wanted to make alcohol illegal. Carrie Nation was a leader of the prohibitionists.

Alcohol reforms

18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol. Marked beginning of PROHIBITION!

Create flashcards for Jane Addams, Lewis Hine, Carrie Nation, Samuel Gomper , Jacob Riis,Upton Sinclair and 18th Amendment

Quiz on People and Amendments on Friday!

Homework

Women’s Rights

Women had few rights… and could not VOTE!

Women’s rights

The suffrage movement was the effort to get women the right to vote. Leaders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony was the most well known of the suffragettes.

Women’s rights reforms

19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.